Posted on 08/25/2010 4:08:56 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Former Republican National Committee chairman and Bush-Cheney campaign manager Ken Mehlman has announced publicly that he is gay, CBS News chief political consultant and politics editor for The Atlantic Marc Ambinder reports.
"It's taken me 43 years to get comfortable with this part of my life," Mehlman said. "Everybody has their own path to travel, their own journey, and for me, over the past few months, I've told my family, friends, former colleagues, and current colleagues, and they've been wonderful and supportive. The process has been something that's made me a happier and better person. It's something I wish I had done years ago, but I didn't."
Mehlman was RNC chairman from 2005 to 2007 after serving as Bush-Cheney campaign manager in 2004. He also served as White House political director during President Bush's first term.
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why am i not surprised????
Keep it to yourself Ken, you have for 43 years.
Meanwhile nobody can seem to find Larry Sinclair.
and some people wonder why RINOs have nothing in common with normal people
and some people wonder why RINOs have nothing in common with normal people
Well, that explains some things...
Wha, he didn’t feel comfortable under Bush’s big tent??
There is something wrong when it takes 43 years to get comfortable with who you are.
Happy Days, so why should I give a sh**.
Bless his heart he has brought things to a head.
he needs to go to rehab really bad
I’ve been thinking about announcing that I am remaining straight....probably wouldn’t get as much press.
Poor Ken, he was the last to know.
More Liberal RINO nonsense
This is not news. He’s been “outed” several times. I think Bill Maher actually outed him on his show.
I don’t care one way or the other, Ken.
It bothers me when folks try to make an issue of someone’s sexuality unnecessarily — including the person in question.
Except I'm married and fat and bald and old and grumpy.
Has anyone noticed that about the time their bats start to go limp, some players show up at the park to begin catching?
http://www.pamspaulding.com/weblog/2005/03/gq-ken-mehlman-isnt-gay-and-repug.html
“”Ken Mehlman is not gay,” Steve Schmidt, a senior official of the Bush campaign and a friend of Mehlman’s told Jake Tapper, an ABC News correspondent who wrote the piece for the [GQ]magazine. “
Well knock me over with a feather ... boa.
The only question then left for Ken to answer is just what role he plays in a relationship. So Ken you do you hit or receive??????
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
The first time I heard this guy talk I knew he had way too few Higgs Bosons in his loafers.
If someone makes an issue of their own vile, perverted, immoral and disease-spreading sexual preferences, then I'm damn sure gonna criticize the hell out of them. If they would just STFU and not announce to the world who and/or what they prefer to diddle, then it wouldn't be an issue.
But of course, homos can't do that, because it's all part of pushing their agenda. They identify themselves first and foremost by their sexual preferences, and try to force the rest of us to accept them as normal, when they're anything but.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
Exactly.
This shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone.
Now when Boy George and Elton John came out, those were some shockers.
Boy George is gay?!?!?!? Say it isn’t so.
Aren’t ladies and gentlemen supposed to refrain from religious and sexual discussions in public?
>>> no wonder the GOP did so terrible in 2008, the Chairman was too preoccupied
Insightful analysis. Clearly Mehlman being gay is what crashed AIG, Morgan-Stanley, and generally put the US into a recession six weeks before the vote.
That made me laugh harder than I have laughed in a long time. Thank you for that.
Only guessing. Not sure about these guys, though:
I thought Bush’s campaigns were pretty limp-wristed. Now I’d take even money that his Chief-of-Staff was a fisting fan.
Indeed ya got to be a macho macho man.
Let me get this straight: a man who finds erotic fascination with the hairy fecal elimination canals of other men WAS PUT IN CHARGE OF THE RNC? And those idiots wonder why we are losing faith in their leadership?
Hmm...next thing you know, they’ll have Barney Frank as the chairman....
And how is this newsworthy?
Mehlman currently holds no elected or appointed position.
Especially when that something is a man and his sex drive, how does a man live most of his life indecisive about, or indifferent to his sexual passion?
You're welcome! But that's not to disparage real catchers such as Yogi Berra, Johnny Bench, Mike Piazza or Greg Olson!
“no wonder the GOP did so terrible in 2008, the Chairman was too preoccupied. Did he have some of his pardners on staff??”
Mr. Mehlman was not chairman of the RNC in 2008. The people in charge of the RNC from 2007 to 2009 were two great “heterosexuals” in the GOP, Senator Mel Martinez and Mr. Mike Duncan.
People can say what they want about this announcement from Mr. Mehlman, I only know the following about his politics, his political experience and his abilities.
As the head of the Bush 2004 re-election campaign, his candidate won when EVERYTHING in the public arena said the nation was so opposed to Bush over Iraq that Bush couldn’t win.
And, during that campaign, Mr. Mehlman created the first-ever nationwide, fully integrated, fully web-site and database integrated national and nation wide integrated get out the vote campaign.
I know, because I personally volunteered to work on it during the campaign and all the up to the final hours. As such a volunteer, you could access lists of GOP-registered and “Independent” registered voters, in your state or in other states, including their phone numbers; select them one by one from the list, note if you contacted them or not and note how you think they responded; all with a “pitch” that identified why your were calling (for the re-elect Bush campaign); and all with your actions continually updating the database everyone was working from.
It became a nearly full time operation for many volunteers in the final few days, and for many of us right up to when the polls closed.
Recruitment, sign-up and coordination was largely performed through Internet based promotion and Email.
How many Americans like me got involved? I was told that during the course of the entire 2004 campaign, about 1.5 million “grass roots” GOPers, like me, got involved.
And Bush won.
No doubt that was what led to Mr. Mehlman’s selection for RNC Chairman’s spot in 2005.
Like I said at the start of my note, Mehlman was followed by the Martinez/Duncan duo, who ran the oh-so-unsuccessful response to the Dims in 2008.
(1) Armand Hammer -- yes, corrupt, thuggish Armand Hammer -- posthumously revealed as a Soviet agent -- was given an award in the name of the RNC;
(2) a surprisingly large number of crooked businessmen had bought their way in;
(3) as I and an off duty public corruption investigator there both recognized, due to Secret Service screening, the Bush people obviously knew but had no sense of concern over who they had let into association with the President of the United States -- which meant the Bush himself had approved of slumming for campaign cash; and
(4), the program included a speech by Ken Mehlman that was so gushingly laudatory of George Bush that I immediately suspected Mehlman was gay and unhappily realized that Bush was shallow enough to like servile, over the top flattery from underlings.
I called that 4 years ago.
Mehlman said he wanted to come out publicly because “he wants to become an advocate for gay marriage.” How long before this idiot says he wants to ‘adopt’ a young boy? Why are these freaks always so predictable?
“There is something wrong when it takes 43 years to get comfortable with who you are.”
So for 30 odd years when Kenny masturbated he was fantasizing about trees or tires? Give me a break. This slimebag knew what turned him on decades ago but had the common sense to know it was perverted. Now he’s just lying through his teeth.
I believe homosexuals decided to infiltrate the Republican Party after values voters and conservative Christians got involved in politics. They could either get “caught” and open the party up to charges of hypocrisy, or come out like Ken and say “See, I’m a Republican, too!”
Goes along with my pet conspiracy theory that the Bushes are really Dem moles sent to destroy the Republican Party from within.
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